Dear Members
To get a clearer view, I optically rearranged the picture.

Main-complaint: Headache

Locality: Vertex,
Sensation of pain:?????????????
Modality: ???????
Con-commitants: spongy swelling on vertex, extremely painful to touch.

It is unclear if there is a more than co-incidental relationship between the main-symptom and this coldness of the head, or the perspiration [face, hands, feet,< night].
If those extra symptoms would form part of the disease-picture, then they would need to have a clear time-wise dependency.

The more defining, rather peculiar symptom in this case of Vertex-ache is that spongy swelling which goes with it, which is extremely painful to touch.

Bearing in mind that the remedy to be suitable should have these two symptoms in characteristics we turn to the repertory.
Of course, if someone knows the MM well, he would not need the aid of a repertory to guide him to a group of possible remedies.

Repertorisation:

1) head external, swelling, spongy: Apis[3], Ars[2], Guaj[2], Old[4], sulph[2], [BB2, 306]
2) Head, external, sensitive to touch: Ars[5]. Sulph[5].

Materia Medica comparison:

I compared Ars, Old, Sulph in the CD, and found, that SULPH is the most suitable to the case, because it has both par.: 153-Symptoms in characteristic manner.


Ps.: It should be noted, that Kent’s repertory is a compilation of most of the repertories available at the time. A lot of entries cannot be sourced, and in comparison with the MM not be verified. BB2 [1937] suffers to a lesser degree the same problem, as not only material from Boenninghausen is included, but also Material from Jahr. The BB1 [1905] does not suffer this problem. Still, the closest to the provings would be Boenninghausen: SRA+ SRN, and the TT.

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath